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How to Calculate and Improve Your Bar’s Profit Margin

7 Shifts

One key area to focus on is drink sales, with cocktail sales accounting for about 23% of a bar's revenue. Start by tracking all the income your bar generates, including sales from drinks, food, and any additional services. Next, divide that cost by the total sales revenue from your drinks.

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It’s Not Christmas in Buenos Aires Without Pan Dulce

EATER

He describes the bread as dried fruit with some dough, instead of the other way around, because of the enormous amount of merchandise that goes into it. At the highest point of this mound of goodies is a signature candied fig.) outside Plaza Mayor, an unassuming bistro in a historic but weathered neighborhood of Buenos Aires.

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The American Restaurant 2022 (Post Pandemic)

Culinary Cues

Ah…now is the time for everyone to start speculating about what the restaurant business will look like when all of this craziness is over. Let’s start with what we are fairly comfortable saying: whatever “normal” is will likely not make an appearance until the end of 2021 – so…let’s begin our speculation with January of 2022 to be safe.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the dismal March restaurant sales, security, loyalty, trends and teen consumer behaviors. March Sales Decline. Same-store sales for restaurants dropped by 28.3 Same-store sales for restaurants dropped by 28.3 percent in March.

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Is Your Ice Cream Too Cold? Lessons in Fighting Friendly Fraud

Modern Restaurant Management

Coming as a result of improvements in card chip technology, this was ostensibly meant to encourage merchants to step up at the point of sale and ensure they are doing their part to safeguard transactions where the card is present. As it happens online, some defended the hapless manager and others disagreed.

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Restaurant Innovation That Goes Beyond Menu Items

Modern Restaurant Management

Our natural inclination is to start with product with sales and marketing, listing out the features and why our thing is all that. If you think about it, most innovations that we know of came about from problem solving, finding the process that takes away pain points and reduces friction. Innovation Through Service.

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The Enduring Appeal of Signature Staples at QSRs and Beyond

Modern Restaurant Management

In a competitive market, these staples serve as a point of differentiation, setting one QSR apart from another and creating a loyal customer base that keeps coming back for more. Strategic promotions enable QSRs to generate excitement and drive sales around customer favorites. In the $387.5